My Adventures With Annebelle

• Zoe Buckley, Grade 3
• Short Story
• 2020

Once there was a horse named Annebelle and she was a caramel colour. She does what I ask her to and comforts me. She is soft and is great company. I live in a house with a big backyard and in that big backyard the stables are housed where the horses live.

One day I went for a ride with my best friend Elle. Elle is a rider who is very kind, short and has blonde hair. All of a sudden it started to rain! Elle spotted some bush land and started to go in for shelter. I quickly followed.

Elle started to get thirsty, but her water bottle was empty. She saw a lake so she said “I’m going to get some water, I’ll catch up with you later”. “Ok” I said and kept going. I went about 500 meters away until I got to a dead end. I turned around. All of a sudden the bushes had grown over the gap I just went through, trapping me in.

I tried to call out loudly to see if there was a response. I heard nothing, so I tried again, but there was still no response. I sat on Annabelle and started to think harder than before about how to get out of this place. Then a bird dropped a message. It said, touch the tree that has a heart shape on the trunk of the tree.

I looked around and found a tree with a heart on the trunk. Annebelle and I went over to the tree and touched it and suddenly I heard the sound of the bush going all back to normal. Annabelle and I rode quickly back to find Elle at the lake. “Quick Elle, let’s go” I yelled and we raced out of the bush. Wow what an adventure!